Music: Janis and Jimi, Op. Posth.

It was a mere coincidence of time and happenstance. But it seemed to sum
up an era with cruel finality. In New York last August, Rock Superstar
Jimi Hendrix completed a record album, flew off for a brief tour of
Germany, wound up in London, where he died of an overdose of sleeping
pills. In Los Angeles, White Blues Queen Janis Joplin was finishing up
an album of her own when she, too, perished of an overdosein her
case, heroin. They had both lived lives of loud, frenzied desperation
that had made them, in...